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Chapter 4
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Since morning Zoe had delivered up the flat to a managing man who had come from Brebant's with a staff of helpers and waiters. Brebant was to supply everything, from the supper, the plates and dishes, the glass, the linen2, the flowers, down to the seats and footstools. Nana could not have mustered3 a dozen napkins out of all her cupboards, and not having had time to get a proper outfit4 after her new start in life and scorning to go to the restaurant, she had decided5 to make the restaurant come to her. It struck her as being more the thing. She wanted to celebrate her great success as an actress with a supper which should set people talking. As her dining room was too small, the manager had arranged the table in the drawing room, a table with twenty-five covers, placed somewhat close together.
"Is everything ready?" asked Nana when she returned at midnight.
"Oh! I don't know," replied Zoe roughly, looking beside herself with worry. "The Lord be thanked, I don't bother about anything. They're making a fearful mess in the kitchen and all over the flat! I've had to fight my battles too. The other two came again. My eye! I did just chuck 'em out!"
She referred, of course, to her employer's old admirers, the tradesman and the Walachian, to whom Nana, sure of her future and longing7 to shed her skin, as she phrased it, had decided to give the go-by.
"There are a couple of leeches8 for you!" she muttered.
"If they come back threaten to go to the police."
Then she called Daguenet and Georges, who had remained behind in the anteroom, where they were hanging up their overcoats. They had both met at the stage door in the Passage des Panoramas9, and she had brought them home with her in a cab. As there was nobody there yet, she shouted to them to come into the dressing
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| v.集合,召集,集结(尤指部队)( muster的过去式和过去分词 );(自他人处)搜集某事物;聚集;激发 | |
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| 全景画( panorama的名词复数 ); 全景照片; 一连串景象或事 | |
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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| adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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| n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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     liking   | |
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| 抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 发牢骚; 咕哝; 发哼声 | |
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     discreet   | |
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     monogram   | |
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     tarnished   | |
| (通常指金属)(使)失去光泽,(使)变灰暗( tarnish的过去式和过去分词 ); 玷污,败坏 | |
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     premature   | |
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| n.光辉;光泽,光亮;荣誉 | |
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| (长形物体的)逐渐变窄( taper的名词复数 ); 微弱的光; 极细的蜡烛 | |
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| 困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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| adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实 | |
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| 吞没( devour的过去式和过去分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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| adj.吃力的,谨慎的v.努力争取(for)( labor的过去式和过去分词 );苦干;详细分析;(指引擎)缓慢而困难地运转 | |
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| adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的 | |
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| n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色 | |
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| n.鞭挞( lash的名词复数 );鞭子;突然猛烈的一击;急速挥动v.鞭打( lash的第三人称单数 );煽动;紧系;怒斥 | |
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| v.生病( ail的第三人称单数 );感到不舒服;处境困难;境况不佳 | |
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| n.入场权( entree的名词复数 );主菜 | |
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| n.花费( expenditure的名词复数 );使用;(尤指金钱的)支出额;(精力、时间、材料等的)耗费 | |
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     bawling   | |
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     buffer   | |
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     pampered   | |
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     suffocation   | |
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     pretense   | |
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     vocation   | |
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| v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转 | |
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     bent   | |
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     portentous   | |
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     anecdotes   | |
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     fray   | |
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     provincials   | |
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     brewed   | |
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     avenged   | |
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     wagers   | |
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     stammered   | |
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     exasperation   | |
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     procured   | |
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     peccadillo   | |
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     amorous   | |
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     bouquet   | |
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     mangled   | |
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     corpse   | |
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     reproof   | |
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     sneering   | |
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     witticisms   | |
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     obstinacy   | |
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     ancestry   | |
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     vein   | |
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     nagging   | |
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     mischief   | |
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     tranquilly   | |
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     shrugged   | |
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     duels   | |
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     countenance   | |
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     exalted   | |
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     demeanor   | |
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     untoward   | |
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     verging   | |
| 接近,逼近(verge的现在分词形式) | |
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     peculiar   | |
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     voluptuous   | |
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     espying   | |
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     exasperating   | |
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     improperly   | |
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     pointed   | |
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     teaspoons   | |
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     prophesy   | |
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     beckoning   | |
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     rigid   | |
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| 交出,让给( relinquish的现在分词 ); 放弃 | |
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     distraction   | |
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     intoxication   | |
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     pestering   | |
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| 发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对 | |
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